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... against the Chinese
armada in a friendly between Malaysia and China today.”
—Malay Mail (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
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The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body ... Latin armata (army).
An anagram of this word is another term from Spanish. What
is it?
● “Choong Hann, who won the Taiwan Open last week, how-
ever,has a chance for revenge a...
Another word a day part 2 pot
... mad about his flat,he really loves his apart-
ment. An American,in exactly the same words, is angry about hav-
ing a flat tire. Well, maybe British and American are two different
languages.
This book ... obsolete).
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telic
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saltant
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conurbation
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trade-last
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tardigrade
44 Words That Aren’t What They...
Another word a day part 13 pot
... out”). One day he was ranting and raving
about an exaggerated claim made by his archrival, Louis B.
Mayer. Mayer had said that his studio, MGM, had more stars
than the sky. Goldwyn demanded to ... of a medial
syllable, as in people who say ‘realator’ instead of ‘realtor.’”
—Chicago Sun-Times
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...
Another word a day part 18 pot
... drumbeats, and
landscapes. The English language has borrowed words from many
of Africa’s languages: trek, aardvark, impala, gnu, okra to name a few.
In this chapter we’ll see words that originate ... the Paradox database, by Borland. ANSA was the
zombie. My wife and I worked as freelance technical writers
for ANSA.
Borland is a zombie too, from all appearances. So the
“brilliant” venture...
Another word a day part 21 pot
... shape suggests that of a seahorse. Anatomy
also yields a horse-related phrase: cauda equina, Latin for “the
tail of a horse,” an apt description of the array of sacral and
coccygeal nerve tracts ... what a war really is!
● “Better known by his nom de guerre as Abu Al Abed, Al Bas-
soumi recalls in detail his childhood and the happy and sad
events of that period.”
—Star (Amman, Jordan)...
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... is always pregnant.
—John Pentland Mahaffy, professor
It’s All Relative
Here in Flanders, we (who also speak Dutch) call this verkoop
bij Amerikaans opbod, which means American auction!
—Jan ... EMERSON,
author and philosopher (1803–1882)
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lanate (LAY-nayt)
adjective Having a woolly surface.
From Latin lanatus,from lana (wool).
● “He particularly didn’t lik...
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... Another
Word A Day
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Another
Word A Day
An All-New Romp
through Some of the Most
Unusual and Intriguing
Words in English
Anu Garg
John Wiley & Sons, ... specifically disclaim any implied war-
ranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or
extended by sales representatives or written sales mat...
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... the
Russian advances—real and imagined—in Central Asia, the
Himalayas and Tibet.”
—New York Times
gambit (GAM-bit)
noun 1. An opening in which a pawn or another piece is sacri-
ficed to obtain a strategic ... And she’s an Oxfordian, a believer in
Edward de Vere as the real Shakespeare.”
—Montreal Gazette
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Whodunit
The battle rages,...
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... from gamba (leg).
●
“North Korea will no doubt try to gain maximum advantage by
playing South Korea,America and Japan off against each other.
If it fails to get the result—and the cash—it wants ... Economist
22 ANOTHER WORD A DAY
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
—
CARL SAGAN, astronomer and author (1934–1996)
Hasta Mañana
These three possibilities for the word ano...